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Welcome to Health Ministries

You are visiting the web site of the Health Ministries Department of Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Observing good health principles has been an emphasis of the church from early in its history. The Bible reminds us that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; therefore we are called to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to share that message with our communities.


  •  Smoking cessation
  •  Stress management
  •  Nutrition and cooking schools
  •  Sanitation, hygiene and communicable diseases
  •  Health fairs
  •  Heart health
  •  Physical fitness, exercise and lifestyle
  •  Weight management
  •  Alcohol and other drugs


At this site you will find resources, ideas and events that will help launch and maintain a health ministries outreach and a health ministry for members of the congregation.

Adventist News Network News

Church bonds strengthened, members remember after disaster

Friday, April 25, 2008
Carolina Hernandez Cruz doesn't go to school anymore. She's suffering post-traumatic stress after losing her father and two sisters in a landslide during last year's flooding in Southeast Mexico, one of the worst disasters in the nation's history.

West Indies: Adventists call for a ban on smoking in public places

Friday, April 25, 2008
Seventh-day Adventists are lobbying to snuff out smoking in public places throughout the Caribbean islands.

Adventists among survivors of Congo plane crash

Friday, April 25, 2008
A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash yesterday, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded.

Adventists join world faith, aid agency leaders against poverty

Friday, April 25, 2008
Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls.

It Is Written to Air Special Mother's Day Program on May 11

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
This Sunday (May 11) It Is Written will feature a special Mother's Day program on its weekly telecast. During this show, Shawn and Jean Boonstra will speak candidly about the challenges of motherhood in a busy world. This program will then be followed up by a Father's Day telecast on June 15.

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Sunset Schedule

Place: Riverside, CA
Sabbath Starts:
10:40 PM May 9, 2008
Sabbath Ends:
10:41 PM May 10, 2008